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Pegasus: The End of Olympus is the absolute best book I have ever read. The conclusion to the Pegasus series is full of action,...

Black Beauty is one of the best books I have read in my entire life! It is about a horse's life, from the viewpoint of the horse. It...

This 2018 Sequoyah Intermediate winner was on my radar but I didn't realize how much I'd actually enjoy it until I gave it a try! Ada is...

Patina can run and run very well. Even though she's new to the track team, she runs faster than the other girls. But her home life isn't...

Castle Crenshaw AKA Ghost, knows he can run. When his daddy fired a gun at his mom and him when he was younger, Ghost found out just how...

Living in Guatemala is all Jaime knows, but when his cousin Miguel is murdered by the local gang, Jaime doesn't have a choice but to...

I did enjoy this companion novel to Dumplin', but for some reason, it didn't resonate with me as much as Dumplin' did. This one...

This book is so good. I loved the main character, Willowdean AKA "Will" AKA "Dumplin'." She is a self-proclaimed fat girl growing up in...

"Moxie girls fight back!" High school isn't great for Viv in her east Texas town. The girls at her school are constantly belittled and...

This sequel takes Amelia and Joshua to the depths of New Orleans and voodoo magic. Amelia is given a message from the demons that they...

This romantic ghost story was great - and it has Oklahoma connections. Eighteen-year-old Amelia has been dead for a while. Her spirit has...

When teens Sophie and Jay play around with a ouija board app on Jay's phone and Sophie asks for the ghost of her distant cousin Rebecca...

When teenaged Molly steals a copy of Jane Eyre from the public library, she's assigned 50 hours of community service to repay her debt to...

When Arthur sees the neighborhood junk man walking down the street in his dead father's hat, he snaps. He throws a brick at the man and...

After forcing Hatch to flee the Elgen Academy in Pasadena, the Electroclan (Michael, Ostin and Taylor), escapes back to Idaho where Elgen...

This novel alternates between present-day and 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma. In present-day, teenage Rowan is living with her black mother and...

I finished this book two days ago and I still don't think I'm ready to write it up. It has quite an interesting premise: Every year,...

When Ophelia AKA Fella's Mama Lacy passed away from pancreatic cancer six months earlier, she was taken from the only family she'd known...

I'm rating this as "it was ok" because I don't really know how I feel about it. I was really into it for the first 100 pages. Then it...

Michael Vey go's to Meridian High School with his friends Ostin and Taylor. Michael and Taylor seem ordinary but they are anything but...